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The film ‘The Bucket list’ is great fun and many people have written their own list of things they want to do before they kick the bucket. Bucket lists are not meant to be generic things like ‘seeing world peace’ or ‘eliminating poverty’ that everyone wants, they’re meant to be more personal, like meeting one of your heroes or visiting the Taj Mahal. I’d never written one so I thought it was time to remedy that. I’ll be a futurist until my last breath so apart from the first item, my list is things that aren’t yet possible, but should be by the time I get to 100 (in 2060). I’ve blogged about most of them.

Visit Yosemite & a few other scenic locations

Wear scanned laser active contact lenses

Talk to a superhuman conscious machine

Travel on a Hyperloop

Watch 1st human Mars landing

See Pythagoras Sling in action

Visit a building over 30km tall

Travel in a pod on a linear induction mat driverless transport system

Own my own free-floating combat drone

Wear an exoskeleton catsuit based on electroactive polymer or folded graphene muscles

Use a real light sabre

Travel on a Skyline at Mach 5 or above

Visit a building with additional floating rooms using lighter-than-air materials

Visit a Moon base

Fire an inverse rail gun at an asteroid or see one used for space transport

Experience consciousness being switched on and off electronically

Get brain-IT link that provides extra IQ digit

Have a real conversation with an IT-upskilled pet

Share consciousness with another person

Inhabit an android, and again with different gender or species

Swap bodies with someone else for a day

Have a plasma window in my office

Experience cyberspace time travel

See linear fusion demonstrated

Own something made of cubic carbon

Write your own bucket list. As well as being fun, you will learn a little more about yourself. It is time well spent.

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I D Pearson BSc DSc(hc) FWAAS CITP FBCS FWIF

About me

I’m an all-round futurist/futurologist with a sound engineering foundation and over 1800 inventions. I spend most of my time writing futures material for white papers or to accompany PR campaigns, but I’ve also delivered well over 1000 conference presentations and appeared over 750 times on TV and Radio, often following writing I’ve done for PR campaigns. I’ve written hundreds of commissioned reports, press articles and seven books, most recently Society Tomorrow, Space Anchor, Total Sustainability and You Tomorrow (2nd Edn). I sometimes undertake phone or face-to-face consultancy on any aspect of the future, usually from a technology perspective, using over 30 years experience as a futurologist and engineer. I have demonstrated about 85% accuracy when looking 10-15 years ahead.

I am a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Fellow of the World Academy for Arts and Science and the World Innovation Foundation.